Palm Pixi announced and soon headed to Sprint

Hot off the heels of its last webOS phone, Palm has just announced the Pixi, or what was formerly referred to by us (apparently not as cool as Palm staffers) as the Eos, and it will be cozying up to its big brother, the Pre, on Sprint’s shores. It’s a tad bit smaller all around, but that’s to be expected since the device has its keyboard and a 2.63″ touchscreen on the face. The Pixi sports dual-band CDMA and EV-DO Rev A for some speedy Sprint goodness but there’s unfortunately no Wi-Fi. It also has everything you’ve come to expect from a modern-day phone: 3.5mm headset jack, 2 megapixel camera with flash, email/IM support, GPS and 8GB of internal memory. And last but not least, there’s no need to worry — the Pixi also gets some wireless charging love with support for Palm’s Touchstone charging dock. Are you holding your breath or passing on this one?

Looks like a nice phone, but if the keyboard is anything like the Treo Pro or the Pre, then I’ll pass.

name1

Interestingly, a few of my family members have the Treo Pro and the platform/hardware for the phone is very similar (if not the same) with space for the gesture area. Qwerty key board is still way too small (man hands!!!).. stickin w/ my BB curve

VZWer

Wow I can’t believe that they forgot to recycle that short stubby antenna! LOL

noname

I really dont think that this phone is focused on winning readers of BGR… people who read these kinds of blogs tend to have higher end phones. This phone is probably aiming for centro users (centro didnt have wifi and was pretty successful for palm) highschool/college kids. This phone will do great.